Compulsive shopping

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Retail Therapy: This Antidepressant has High Addictive Potential

 Since the Chicago Tribune coined the phrase in a 1986 editorial, stating “We’ve become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy”, shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyer’s mood or disposition has achieved a certain legitimacy – and has become a contributing factor in

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Addiction is a factor in many bankruptcies

Unfortunately, addiction is everywhere in America. It’s becoming almost normative for adults to use some substance or engage in some activity to such excess that it becomes an overriding compulsion, trumping family, health, and financial solvency. The classic heroin addict has usually descended too far down the scale to benefit from filing for bankruptcy, but he